Hello!

I was just assembling my new computer, when I f***ed it up :/

I had a RAID (Stripe) and accidently deleted it
I have a Promise PDC20378 controller (on motherboard ASUS K8V SE Deluxe).

Is there any way to recover the array?

I thougt about just recreating a new arra how it was befor I deleted it, but I do not not know, whether this deletes my files on the disks

Can anybody help me? It's ver important. Nearl all of my data was stored in that array.

/PITU

Hello

Can you describe what happens more exactly ? Have you deleted datas or the entire structure ?

Try this software, i use it since 3 years with success (Intel ICH5 and ICH8R). Especially for errors or deletion !

http://www.runtime.org/raid.htm

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My setup was the following:

HDD 1 (~40gb, Windows and programs)
HDD 2 (50GB, Data)
HDD 3 (50GB, Data)
HDD 4 (100GB, Music etc)

I saved the files from HDD 4. And I wanted to disassemble it. As I thougt, that I backed-up the RAID (HDD 2 and HDD 3), I entered the Raid-Setup which appeared right after I turned on my computer. I chose to delete the array and I confirmed it. I turned off the computer and disassembled the two HDDs 2 and 3. After booting into windows I saw, what I just did.

And that's it.

Since it's a Promise controller you should be able to put HDDs 2 and 3 back in the machine, then go into the Promise RAID setup and recreate the array exactly as it was before. You have to be sure that the stripe size is the same as it was before.